Check-hook.



No. 734,160. PATENTED JULY 21, 1903.

' O. BUGKLEY I. C. HOLLINGER.

CHECK HOOK. APPLICATION PI LEDJUNE 17, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

Ema/whom UNITE STATES Patented July 21,1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES BUCKLEY AN'D ISAAC CQHOLLINGER, OFNEW ALBANY,INDIANA.

CHECK-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 734,160 dated July 21, 1903. Application filed J'nne'17, 1902. Serial No. 112,018. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beitknown that we,CHARLEsBUCKLEY and ISAAC O. HOLLINGER, citizens of the United States, residing at New Albany, in the county of Floyd and State of Indiana, have in'vented certain new and useful Improvements in Check-Hooks; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. V

This invention relates to check-hooks.

The object thereof is to form an improved and efiective retaining device for checkreins.

A further object is to construct an improved device with which a checkrein may be attached or detached with facility.

An embodiment of the invention is hereinafter described and is illustrated in the ac oompanying drawings, in which 1 Figure 1 is a front viewbf the device. Fig. 2 is a side view. Fig. 3 is a front view with the checkrein-loop removed. Fig. 4c is a front view with the front plate detached to show the latch. Fig. 5 is aside view of the checkrein-loop. Fig.'6 is a perspective view of the inside of the front plate'removed from the block.

Referring specifically to the drawings, a block is indicated at 6, preferably circular in front elevation, and from the bottom thereof a bolt 7 projects, whereby the device is se The block is recured to a harness-saddle. cessed to receive a vertically-sliding latch 8. A front plate 9, secured to the block by screws 10, covers the recess and has a pin 9, which projects into a slot 8 in the latch to socket to receive the. pin 12 of the loop 12,

through which the checkrein is passed. The latch has a hole 8 for the pin which registers with the hole 11 when the latch is pressed down. The pin has an annular groove 12*, into which the edge of the latch at the hole 8 springs when the pin is put into the socket. The pin is pointedto facilitate its entry. It is retained by the latch until pressure is applied to the top of the latter to disengage it from the groove, when the pin will readily pull out of the socket.

Minor changes may be made in the construction of the article within the scope of the invention, and i i What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'- f Acheckrein-holder.comprising a recessed a latch-engaging groove, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES BUCKLEY. ISAAC OQHOLLINGER. Witnesses:

SAML. B. KERR, H MATHIAS FROSEMILLER. 

